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plato atheism age
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. Denis Diderot
plato years ideas
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. Ludwig von Mises
plato kind members
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
plato people leader
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care. Dick Costolo
plato father thinking
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t. Bill Maher
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
plato history secret
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
plato book greatness
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis
shadow deeds
The word is the shadow of the deed. Democritus
shadow deeds
Word is a shadow of a deed.
shadow womens-suffrage pathways
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
shadow development india
India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model. Abdul Kalam
shadow
I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically. Tracy Kidder
shadow
She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone. Beth Lowery
shadow rebirth splendid
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. Aberjhani
shadow awful degrees
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself! Charles Dickens
shadow ordinary encounters
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment. Chris Abani
caves maps domes
You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map. Dick Vitale
caves geology local random scale whimsical
Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.
caves goes-on sometimes
Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you. Miley Cyrus
caves wanted
I always wanted to go in a cave.
caves cracks trifles
Cracks make caves collapse. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
caves andrea knows
I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that Andrea Thompson
caves given knew message people point relate roof song soon
I think we all knew it was the kind of song that had a message people could relate to. Everybody, at any given point in their life, is going through something. That's life. Always a new challenge. As soon as we think we've got the one thing down, a roof caves in. You just never know what's going to happen.
caves exploded flourishes theory though
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. James Buchan
caves boxers add
They found a cave once lived in by Osama bin Laden and the only thing in the cave were some boxer undershorts, and macaroni. I'm telling you, you add an old stack of Playboys, this could be my place. It's like I have a twin. David Letterman